Ok, can someone shed some light for me on the firmware update?

[c0ldr0ses]

Ive read so many topics either saying, "There will be an update", or "There will not be an update"

does anyone have a definitive answer regarding this? Sooooo confusing.

[Shinji Ikeda]

There have been tips only. There have been no offical announcements. With tips it is difficult to confirm or deny the rumour. I am one of those that will take a wait and see approach.

The confusion seems to have risen from reported conflicting reports from Sony. The latest report states that no new firmware is coming.

Only Sony knows the definite answer.

[pomj]

I think it is like this.

NW and NWZ is two different lines of players. NW an atrac player where you use SonicStage to manage your music and NWZ where you use drag and drop, WMP11 or whatever to manage your music.

IMHO the pros and cons is:

Pro: NW - because you use SS you have advanced mode where you can play with ratings make manual or automatic playlists and so forth. This is because the music library is a database thus you can view your data in different ways. You have atrac and you can play gapless.

NWZ - Drag and drop *is* simpler and quicker. You manage your music yourself. MAC and linux compatible.

Cons: NW - Not MAC and unix compatible.

NWZ - You loose the database way of viewing your library. No gapless.

When sony released the NWZ line I was worried that they wouldn't support the NW line anymore but I interpret their information as that they will keep on updateing the player (firmware) and SS so they won't get unusable. But they will not give an firmware update that will make the NW line same as NWZ.